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Steve Roach/Byron Metcalf-Tales from the Ultra Tribe. This is a great disc, melding Artifacts-era tribalism with Body Electric style fractal soundscaping. An essential purchase.

Ramp-Steel and Steam, Return, and Astral Disaster. This trilogy of discs is amazing, I listened to them all back to back the other night, and I have finally done a review which I will post here tomorrow. Awesome, awesome stuff.

Genesis-Abacab and Genesis. These are two solid albums from the 80's, yeah they sound a bit dated but nevertheless they showed how great this band could be without Peter Gabriel, that is until the subsequent albums after these two when things just fell apart (IMO).

Resonant Drift- Full CircleA perfect album in many respects. Soft, gentle ambiance that gradually and non-obtrusively builds to some rhythmic soundscapes. There are some wonderful melodies embedded in the tracks too. Highly recommended.

Taylor Deupree - Faint This is growing on me. My first reaction was that there was too fine a line between this release and Shoals. But now I'm loving it--especially the first and last tracks. I splurged on the box set and haven't yet digested the extra disc.

David Sylvian/Stephan Mathieu--Wandermude. Drone based ambient work in which Mathieu recycles/processes Sylvians Blemish album. Liking this quite a bit so far. Very spaced out in parts, would fit nicely in kubricks 2001 or as an alternative soundtrack...

The Sylvian is all instrumental. Some of the tracks are kind of glitchy, but it's mostly pretty drifty. It's a mistake to call this a "new" David Sylvian album though; it's more Stephan Mathieu processing the existing "Blemish" tracks, recorded years ago.

krill.minima - Sekundenschlaf - Martin Juhls hasn't released a krill.minima album in a while so this was a welcome surprise. Good scratchy, dubby electronics.Philémon Chante - Les Sessions Cubaines - Found this on Bandcamp, very nice acoustic jazz sung in French, recorded in Cuba.Matt Chamberlain- Viktor Krauss- and Dan Phelps - MODULAR - Another Bandcamp disovery. Good post-rock.Blaudzun - Heavy Flowers - Good indie rock - like a combo of Beirut, Frightened Rabbit and The Lumineers. God stuff.

Durutti Column-Short Stories for Pauline. Excellent reissue with bonus live disc, Brussels 1981. Also includes an interview with Vini Reilly, which is very interesting.

The Cult-Dreamtime Live 1984. '84-86 were to me the Cult's best period. This is a smoking hot live album recorded at the Lyceum, a couple years before they hit it big with the "Love" album. Hard to find a physical copy--it was a Japan-only release, but it's on iTunes I believe.

The Sun and the Moon-demos. Mark Burgess and John Lever of the Chameleons formed this band after Chameleons breakup in '87. They released one official album on Geffen Records around '88/'89. This demos album was released as a CDR and has some good stuff on it.